Endtown by Aaron Neathery for October 22, 2018

Uh-oh! Marx is up to his tricks again. Good to see Wally, though.

Sunshine and lollipops…

The “boulders” the right… rock candy?

or “Pop Rocks”

And now for something completely different…

Hopefully this will be the intro to a lighter story arc. We don’t need another dark, brutal ’pig slaughter" arc anytime soon.

WOW!

What a great start! Thanks Aaron.

Great art. Awesome details! Welcome back, Aaron

They look a bit grey.

Dream a little dream. Condoms on sticks

We missed you!

Welcome Back, Aaron. Hope you are rested and well.

Looks like the Big Rock Candy Mountain.Now all we need are Chutes and Ladders.

Shouldn’t it be “Purple Mountains Majesty above the fruited plains”

Notice Marx and Wally are in black and white. Wonder if this is someone’s Dream?

Hm… Wally’s here… In Candy Land… with Marx… And they are in black and white while the world is in color……… comment stating the obvious is checked.

Great to see you back, Aaron.

What’s he smoking?

A BIG Welcome back to Aaron & Wally! Looking forward to another GREAT story!

Welcome back, Aaron.

What’s your Patreon account, again?

Are they on their way to the Big Rock Candy Mountain?

Meanwhile in another part of Reality……another story continues.

Could be backlash against the complaints about too dark of a story, last time around.. Gentle backlash, though!

Welcome back, Aaron! We’ve missed you!

Its good to see you back in my queue again.

The Candy Man can.

But where are Kirbee, Chic, & Irving?

Welcome back, Aaron!

I see Marx casually strolling along as if the surroundings are completely normal, while Wally is looking about as if to say, “Where the heck are we?” I suspect a dream sequence with a specific message to show, but nothing is ever black-and-white with Marx (pun mostly intended).

Yay! Endtown is back! Welcome back Aaron & all!

Nothing like teasing someone who hasn’t had any sweets in years with a world of sweets.

“Oh, the buzzin’ of the bees in the cigarette trees / the soda water fountain / where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings / in that Big Rock Candy Mountain.”

The original lyrics to The Big Rock Candy Mountains was about a hobo’s ideal life. It had cigarette trees, all the cops had wooden legs, and bulldogs with rubber teeth.

Do you want witches? Because this is how you get witches.

Nice! Not what I expected at all. But that’s always the great thing about this strip! Hope all is well, Aaron!

yay Wally’s back

We’re live! And everything looks fine and candy. Obviously it’s nothing but rainbows from here on out.

It’s Wally! Hey Wally!

This is sort of disquieting, like the poppy field in the Wizard of Oz movie. Stay on the damn path!

Yellow sky, too. Not quite right.

And all those Big Rock Candy Mountain thoughts? Going back to the original version, not the Bowdlerized one, and there’s a rough, sinister side to it.

Nice – and interesting – start! Glad to have Endtown back! Hope all is going as well for you, Aaron.

CANDYLAND!! I LOVED that game!

Wait! Sunshine and lollipops, but no rainbows anywhere! DARK!!

On a side note most likely not related to the arc. I wonder if Wally, Kirbee and Chic ever made it out of the wasteland.

Ooh, the size of those lollipops… Wait… WHAT? NO GRAPE???

Oh, well… Welcome back, Mr. Neathery!

Tangerine trees and marmalade skies.

@Dragoncat: Perhaps the “grass” is grape flavored. It has the right color.

One never knows what will happen when Marx twirls the Dimensionometer™….

And I can’t help wondering if the road is chocolate or cocoa…

Oh yeah, Very nice (and intriguing) work Mr Neathery, and welcome back!

If that is the dimensionilizer that Aaron is swinging, he treats it very casually for the device he says allows him to travel among the worlds – and is irreplaceable.

Nice to see you back, Aaron. Hope the health’s okay? (I have to stay healthy for another year and a quarter before I get any kind of insurance myself. You have my sympathies.)

It has struck me before, if it wasn’t for the IP and copyright lawyers young Mr. Marx would be seen hanging with The Doctor, his bro…

Glad to see your work again Mr. Neatherly! I like the color I am thinking of the 1939 “Wizard of Oz” film as a reference point. Between Kansas and Oz, here between the world and this VR world.

Channeling Wily Wonka

Just discovered Endtown a week or two ago. Remarkable! Eager to see a new story arc from its beginning. Many thanks to Aaron for such fine work!

Welcome back, Mr Neathery!!!! I hope you actually got some time off to rest, relax, and recreate.

We represent the Lolly pop Guild,

The Lolly pop Guild,

The Lolly pop Guild

And in the name of the Lolly pop Guild,

We wish to welcome you to Muchkinland.

We welcome you to Munchkinland, Tra la la la la la la

DO I SPY A WALLY

Possibly an unpopular comment, but I like the color. Often, the grey scale hides important details in the artwork. But I agree with others above who have said that, with Aaron and Wally in black-and-white, this must be a dream sequence!

I enjoy colour, too. But it takes Neathery longer to create a colour strip than a grey one, and there’s a limited budget of person-hours to do it in. If we had full-colour strips every time, we may not get three strips every week. I did colour several of the existing strips for promotional purposes, over the years. I’m not sure how to share the files with you, but I can show you somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-macfL0MdM